Douglas Driediger
Douglas Driediger is a Calgary-based artist and muralist, and the Founder and Creative Director of Metrographics (1981), a multidisciplinary design and advertising studio that specializes in fine-art-based problem solving. He graduated from the Alberta College of Art and Design in 1980 with an honours diploma focusing on painting. His art career has a national reputation for excellence; he is a juried member of the Graphic Designers of Canada and the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour.
Given his focus on large-scale public art, Driediger is best known for his interpretive work for Parks Canada/Alberta Parks, which can be found in sites including the Kootenay Park Lodge Interpretive Centre, the Sulfur Mountain Observation Deck (Banff), Elk Island National Park Visitor Centre (Fort Saskatchewan, SK), and the Kwisitis Interpretive Centre (Tofino, B.C.). Driediger has also completed iconic murals for the Calgary Urban Project Society (CUPS), the Calgary Petroleum Club, and the Calgary Exhibition & Stampede in downtown Calgary, among dozens of others across Western Canada. He likes working in series, having previously completed a series of portraits of the 12 Apostles, reimagined in present day settings using his friends as models, and a “painting-a-day” for a year, a series of 52 weekly self-portraits now held in the collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
Given his focus on large-scale public art, Driediger is best known for his interpretive work for Parks Canada/Alberta Parks, which can be found in sites including the Kootenay Park Lodge Interpretive Centre, the Sulfur Mountain Observation Deck (Banff), Elk Island National Park Visitor Centre (Fort Saskatchewan, SK), and the Kwisitis Interpretive Centre (Tofino, B.C.). Driediger has also completed iconic murals for the Calgary Urban Project Society (CUPS), the Calgary Petroleum Club, and the Calgary Exhibition & Stampede in downtown Calgary, among dozens of others across Western Canada. He likes working in series, having previously completed a series of portraits of the 12 Apostles, reimagined in present day settings using his friends as models, and a “painting-a-day” for a year, a series of 52 weekly self-portraits now held in the collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.